Slush 2018 (4 - 5 December, Helsinki)

Slush is a not-for-profit startup and tech event, organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students, and festival organizers. Held annually in Helsinki, Finland, it has grown from a 300-person conference in 2008 into one of the leading global startup event of its kind in 2017. In 2017, Slush gathered 20,000 attendees, with over 2,600 startups, 1,500 investors and 600 journalists coming in from over 130 countries to participate together in this global networking festival.

The very core of Slush is to facilitate founder and investor meetings and to build a world-wide startup community. Slush is also a student-driven movement to change attitudes towards entrepreneurship as it provides a platform for youths and student volunteers to co-organize, and create Slush and cultivate the next talents in the entrepreneurship scene.

Since 2015, Slush also run events throughout the world in four major cities under Slush Tokyo, Slush Shanghai, and Slush Singapore.